Quotes About Focus

Putting things off means precious time is lost. Productivity suffers.

Focusing on what we don't have is a waste of time and energy. To really make a difference, let's instead focus out energy on succeeding within the box.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

As this pain comes up also focus on the love you feel for him/her. Focus on the love. Love feels good, love is expansive. Love is open and accepting. This love you feel is healing the pain of your loss. One day soon your pain will go and only the love will remain.

The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.

El destino al que está abocado cualquier especialista de cualquier área de la ciencia es ceñirse cada vez más estrechamente al tema de su especialidad, aprendiendo cada vez más sobre cada vez menos materia, hasta acabar finalmente sabiéndolo todo sobre nada.

her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

Something like that. And

And the voice will tell you to pick yourself up, to set a goal, to work harder than anybody else, stick to the basics, execute perfectly, be confident, be brave, and never, never quit. The voice is never far away.

You boys just don't get politics, do you? You're so hung up on who's a Democrat and who's a Republican, and you lose sight of the real goal. Winning! It's much more important to pick the winners, Rusty, regardless of affiliation.

Don't waste a second but never hurry.

Once she was settled and rested, she would plunge into her work and average at least a thousand words a day.

Her thoughts could not escape the present.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other

took out a notepad, and seemed ready to pounce on everything laid on the table. Half an hour later

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.

You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought, though unspoken, is unstoppable.

you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.

Tell your mom he said, 'Sibelius.' It's all he thinks about. I mean going there," she added.

No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.